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D-Index
63
Citations
21127
World Ranking
1564
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Malcolm Sambridge is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics. Throughout their career, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work spans a range of main topics, including seismic imaging and inversion techniques, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, seismic waves and analysis, scientific research and discoveries, and Bayesian methods and mixture models.

Frequent collaborators in their research include A. P. Valentine, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Andrew Jackson, Fabrizio Magrini, and Kerry Gallagher.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on geophysical methods and quantitative analysis:

  • "National COVID numbers - Benford's law looks for errors," 2020, Nature
  • "Evidence for the Innermost Inner Core: Robust Parameter Search for Radially Varying Anisotropy Using the Neighborhood Algorithm," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Geophysical inversion and optimal transport," 2022, Geophysical Journal International
  • "Hydrological objective functions and ensemble averaging with the Wasserstein distance," 2023, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Upscaling and downscaling Monte Carlo ensembles with generative models," 2022, Geophysical Journal International

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geophysical Journal International, Nature, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Malcolm Sambridge has been recognized with fellowships including that of the Australian Academy of Science awarded in 2015 and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fellowship awarded in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene.

    Kurt Lambeck;Hélène Rouby;Anthony Purcell;Yiying Sun

  • Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm—I. Searching a parameter space

    Malcolm Sambridge

  • Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm—II. Appraising the ensemble

    Malcolm Sambridge

  • MONTE CARLO METHODS IN GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS

    Malcolm Sambridge;Klaus Mosegaard

  • Mixture modeling of multi-component data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages

    M.S. Sambridge;W. Compston

  • Wave front evolution in strongly heterogeneous layered media using the fast marching method

    Nicholas Rawlinson;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Geophysical parametrization and interpolation of irregular data using natural neighbours

    Malcolm Sambridge;Jean Braun;Herbert McQueen

  • A regionalized upper mantle (RUM) seismic model

    Ólafur Gudmundsson;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

    Thomas Bodin;Malcolm Sambridge;Hrvoje Tkalcic;Pierre Arroucau

  • Seismic tomography with the reversible jump algorithm

    Thomas Bodin;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Monte Carlo analysis of inverse problems

    Klaus Mosegaard;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Genetic algorithms in seismic waveform inversion

    Malcolm Sambridge;Guy Drijkoningen

  • Modelling landscape evolution on geological time scales: a new method based on irregular spatial discretization

    Jean Braun;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Subspace methods for large inverse problems with multiple parameter classes

    B. L. N. Kennett;M. S. Sambridge;P. R. Williamson

  • Trans-dimensional inverse problems, model comparison and the evidence

    Malcolm Sambridge;K Gallagher;Andrew Jackson;Peter Rickwood

  • The fast marching method: An effective tool for tomographic imaging and tracking multiple phases in complex layered media

    Nicholas Rawlinson;Malcolm Sambridge

  • A Parallel Tempering algorithm for probabilistic sampling and multimodal optimization

    Malcolm Sambridge

  • Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling methods to determine optimal models, model resolution and model choice for Earth Science problems

    Kerry Gallagher;Karl Charvin;Soren Nielsen;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Multiple reflection and transmission phases in complex layered media using a multistage fast marching method

    Nicholas Rawlinson;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Seismic traveltime tomography of the crust and lithosphere

    Nicholas Rawlinson;Malcolm Sambridge

  • Genetic algorithms: a powerful tool for large-scale nonlinear optimization problems

    Kerry Gallagher;Malcolm Sambridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Bodin
Thomas Bodin École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Nicholas Rawlinson
Nicholas Rawlinson University of Cambridge
Brian Kennett
Brian Kennett Australian National University
Hrvoje Tkalčić
Hrvoje Tkalčić Australian National University
Kerry Gallagher
Kerry Gallagher University of Rennes
Anya M. Reading
Anya M. Reading University of Tasmania
Roel Snieder
Roel Snieder Colorado School of Mines
Jean Braun
Jean Braun University of Potsdam
Paul Tregoning
Paul Tregoning Australian National University
Eric Debayle
Eric Debayle École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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